While there is no precise date for the beginning of the Democratic party, its origin can be traced to the late 1700s when Thomas Jefferson's Democratic-Republican party organized opposition to the ...

Nowhere is the complete lack of democracy more apparent than in the system to elect the president of the United States: the ...

When the Intolerable Acts, the British response to the Boston Tea Party, closed Boston's docks ... having lost the clear-cut agricultural look of the 1700s. The city of Boston has undergone ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with historian Lindsay Chervinsky about lessons on the American presidency that can be learned from the then fledgling nation's second president, John Adams.

Rachel Reeves says pensioners are on course for a £1,700 boost under Labour as she tries to counter a rebellion over winter ...

Some of the 1,700 prisoners due to be released 40 per cent of the way into their sentence on Tuesday were filmed being ...

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath hit out at the Samajwadi Party and its leader Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday. He said that ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has won a parliamentary vote on a contentious decision to cut a payment that helps ...

THE controversial early release scheme will see 1,700 prisoners back on the streets today. Fears over Brits’ safety are ...

International Day of Democracy, on September 15, has passed, but it is crucial to push for reforms that expand the definition ...

Chancellor tries to quell revolt over cuts to energy payments by insisting that triple lock will boost state pensions ...

Only one Labour lawmaker voted with the opposition, along with several legislators serving suspensions from the party over a previous ... early release of more than 1,700 inmates to make space ...